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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Introduction
1: Virginia Woolf Nears Forty
2: Eliot in January
3: Edward Morgan Forster
4: “Somewhere Away by Myself”
5: “The Greatest Waste Now Going On in Letters”
6: “Without a Novel & With No Power to Write One”
7: “The Usual Fabulous Zest”
8: “English in the Teeth of All the World”
9: “Do Not Forget Your Ever Friend”
10: “Eliot Dined Last Sunday & Read His Poem”
11: Women in Love in Court
12: The Waste Land in New York
13: “I Like Being with My Dead”
14: A September Weekend with the Woolves
15: David and Frieda Arrive in Taos
16: “Mrs Dalloway Has Branched into a Book”
17: “What More Is Necessary to a Great Poem?”
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliographic Note
Photos
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
Copyright
THE WORLD BROKE IN TWO. Copyright © 2017 by Bill Goldstein. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Cover design by Rick Pracher
Cover photographs courtesty of: Archives Charmet/Bridgeman Images (Woolf); E. O. Hoppe/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images (Eliot); Everett Collection (Lawrence and Forster)
The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Goldstein, Bill, author.
Title: The world broke in two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and the year that changed literature / Bill Goldstein.
Description: New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2017. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017001569 | ISBN 9780805094022 (hardback) | ISBN 9781627795296 (electronic book)
Subjects: LCSH: English fiction—20th century—History and criticism. | Nineteen twenty-two, A.D. | Modernism (Literature)—Great Britain. | Literature and society—History—20th century. | Woolf, Virginia, 1882–1941—Criticism and interpretation. | Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888–1965—Criticism and interpretation. | Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885–1930—Criticism and interpretation. | Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan), 1879–1970—Criticism and interpretation. | BISAC: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. | LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading.
Classification: LCC PR888.M63 G65 2017 | DDC 823/.9109112—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017001569
e-ISBN 9781627795296
First Edition: August 2017
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